“Female version of designer/developer: Hair in ponytail, half-dressed in pajama bottoms & t-shirt, coffee cup with two sips of cold coffee left in the bottom, crossed eyes from focusing on two screens at the same time, alarm clock to remind her to eat, sleep & pay attention to family. Second alarm clock for when first alarm clock is ignored. Dark chocolate bars within arms reach at all times. Frequently says ‘Just let me transfer this one file real quick’…” This is so true. Something else these people have in common…a lack of social skills and a moderate to extreme sense of self importance. As someone who sits between the two extremes with a slight leaning toward designer, but only slightly, I can speak to this. The Internet creation crew are people who spend their entire lives in front of computers and face to face communication makes us uncomfortable. We also know that our skills are quite rare in the grand scheme of skilled workers, and want people to appreciate us as someone more than that “computer nerd”… To the topic though, I would say if you wish to hire someone to create a website for your organization or business, I would go after a Web Designer vs. a Web Developer. With “frameworks” like WordPress and Joomla, designers can quickly customize something for you based on your brand…and can even help you come up with one if you don’t have something yet. Best of all, they will hand the site over to you to update at your leisure as those frameworks were designed to be maintained by the technology unsavvy. One payment and you’re done! Web developers, on the other hand, are more concerned with how something works than with how it looks. Most don’t have a...